A family from Nieuwegein near Utrecht have been ordered by the local mayor to leave their home for three months because of the risk they pose to public safety.
Two grenades were found in front of the terraced house where the family lives on Thursday and last week their home was shot at, prompting the mayor to take action.
'Sealing this house is necessary to ensure the safety of the neighbourhood and prevent new occurrences,' mayor Frans Backhuijs is quoted as saying by the Volkskrant.
He said the family understood the decision and will sort out a new place to live themselves. The council is not funding their temporary accommodation.
Explosives experts spend much of Thursday clearing the grenades and making sure the street is safe. The local school was also closed and the children were evacuated.
'There is obviously talk of a conflict,' a police spokesman told reporters on Thursday. 'But we don't know what it is about and we plan to talk more to the man of the house who seems to be the target.'
The family, made up of two parents and two adult children, have lived in the area for several years. More >

A 14-year-old boy who has admitted stabbing his parents to death at the family farmhouse in last year, should be given the maximum sentence under juvenile law, the public prosecutor has told a closed court session.
This means the boy would spend a year in a juvenile prison, followed by treatment in a psychiatric prison.
No more details about the case have been made public and it is unclear what motivated the boy to attack his mother and father at their home.
The bodies of the 63-year-old man and 62-year-old woman were found by neighbours who share the property and the boy, the youngest of three sons, was arrested shortly afterwards.
Katlijk, close to Heerenveen, is a small village of just 600 people and the double murder has shocked locals. The family were not known to be a problem and were not involved with social services, the town’s mayor told the Leeuwarder Courant.
The court will rule on the case in two weeks time. That session will be open to the public and the press. More >

Last year there were 985 incidents of passengers disrupting flights or misbehaving at Schiphol airport, the AD said on Monday.
This is more than double the number of incidents recorded in 2010, the paper said. The situation is so serious that the safety of other passengers is under threat, the Netherlands' aviation public prosecution chief Frances Schlingemann told the paper.
'Passengers who are out of control cost so much time and energy that the crew are not keeping watch on aircraft safety,' he said.
Last year, almost 100 cases of bad passenger behaviour have been taken to court and Schlingemann wants cabin crew and ground crew to make more police complaints.
He also says that travellers should have to show their boarding cards when buying alcoholic drinks at Schiphol's bars. This would enable staff to alert airlines to potential troublemakers.
Meanwhile, two Dutch MEPs say airlines should be swapping black lists about unruly passengers. 'We cannot allow the disruptive behaviour of one person to endanger the safety of the other passengers and crew,' ChristenUnie MEP Pieter van Dalen told the paper.
Schiphol airport said in a statement that it processes some 68 million passengers a year and that a relatively small number cause problems by drinking too much.
However, the airport is considering asking bar staff to pay more attention to responsible drinking and to warn passengers that they could be refused access to their flight. More >

A Venezuelan man was arrested on the Caribbean island of Aruba on Sunday, heading for the Netherlands with a suitcase full of gold bars.
The man was reportedly planning to board a KLM fight to the Netherlands when officials found 46 gold bars, weighing some 50 kilos, in his luggage. The Curacao public prosecution department said on Facebook the gold had a value of €1.7m.
The man is being held on charges of smuggling gold and forgery. The authorities in the Netherlands, Aruba and Curaçao are investigating.
Venezuela is currently facing the world’s worst inflation crisis - the IMF projects inflation will reach 13,000% this year and the economy will shrink 15%, the Guardian said in a report on Monday.
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Could ‘sinister’ Dutch sailor Hendrik de Jong have been the notorious Jack the Ripper? British tabloids The Sun and The Daily Mail think he may well have been. They base their conclusions on an article by crime historian Jan Bondeson and Dutch researcher Bart Droog in the Ripperologist, a magazine dedicated to the serial killer.
The identity of the man who killed and maimed at least five prostitutes in the working class area of Whitechapel in London in 1888 has never been discovered although not for lack of trying. The list of possible candidates is long and includes Lewis Carroll and painter Walter Sickert, one of whose paintings was allegedly destroyed by crime fiction writer Patricia Cornwell in her quest to prove his guilt.
But according to Droog the tabloids can’t have read the study through to the end. ‘I was amused at the articles in the tabloids. They obviously never read the whole thing because what we are saying is that it is highly unlikely that De Jong was Jack the Ripper,' he told newspaper AD.
De Jong, whose work as a steward frequently took him to England, caught the attention of the British police when his English wife disappeared a month after the wedding around the time of the Whitechapel murders.
But Droog says, there is nothing to prove that the police ever seriously considered De Jong to be the Jack the Ripper.
Convictions
But while he was not the notorious serial killer De Jong had convictions for defrauding a string of women and was eventually suspected of killing two ex-wives and a Belgian bar owner and her servant.
Before he could stand trial, De Jong disappeared. He was subsequently condemned to death in his absence. The ‘Dutch Jack the Ripper', as the authors call him, may have fled to the United States where he perhaps continued his criminal activities and ended up dying in prison.
In spite of what the tabloids say, all the article does, its authors conclude, is ‘grant Hendrik de Jong membership to a select club of Ripper suspects: namely that consisting of serial killers of women who were active at the same time as Jack the Ripper, but with a different modus operandi’. More >